The Smiths have kind of been there for me for a while now - at few years at least (6 to be exact, since i first bought the "singles" compilation), and ive never been able to adequately explain why i liked them (i once gave an (ex)friend a kicking for suggesting it was merely because i percieved them as being "cool"... i would never view music so frivolously!)... then last week it struck me; id had a pretty bad few weeks and felt pretty low, i put "strangeways" on and something Johnny Marr said in Uncut came to mind: "me and morrissey used to discuss it quite a lot - depression is useless, but mlancholy's a genuine place". And that was it - i realised why id liked the Smiths all this time without being able to explain it, but now i can.... Last week hearing "a rush and a push" felt like a gentle caress alleviating my troubles - They sooth my melancholic moods!